In the last episode (Jan 30), Christian Kohlsch?tter said:
> Actually, you _can_ use ORDER BY with UPDATE.
> 
> It works fine, if you do an
> 
> update tb_roubr set id=id+1 where id>1 order by id DESC
> 
> on your table.

Only if you're runing MySQL 4.0.  3.23 does not allow UPDATE .. ORDER BY.


Changes in release 4.0.0 (Oct 2001: Alpha)
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   * Added `ORDER BY' syntax to `UPDATE' and `DELETE'.



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        Dan Nelson
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